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CURB-TEMPLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

Application led May 5, 1917. Serial No. 166,651.

others skilled in the art towhich it apper-v tains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in molding devices and particularly to that type of molds known as curb templets.

The object of this invention is the provision of a curb templet having means to permit the same to be used with a curb plate for producing an angular curb, or a vertical wall curb.

The invention comprises various details of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Flgure 1 1s a side section of the device forming the present invention. y

Fig. 2 is a side section of the device adjusted to support a curb plate at an angle.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

vReference now being had to the details of the drawings by numeral, 1 indicates an upper horizontal support, constructed of wood or metal, to which are pivotally connected the side bars 2, by means of bolts 3 eX- tending through the upper ends of said side bars and adapted to be held against movement'by means of nuts 4 which bind against the bars 2 when the same are tightened or screwed home. Brace bars 5 have their upper ends pivoted to the upper horizontal support 1 by'means of the bolts and upon which nuts-9 are fitted, the lower ends of the bracey bars 5 being pivotally connected to the respective side bars 2 by boltsv passing through the side bars 2. The upper ends of the brace bars 5 may be positioned in either of the openings of the support 1, thereby providing for an adjustment of the side bars 2, to permit them to be employed for supporting said side bars at an angle to produce an angular curb, if desired, as shown in Fig. 2,

In order that this device may be used in the construction of large work, I have provided connecting pieces, each of which comprises the apertured head 10 and threaded shank 12, over which engages the nut 13 to secure the connecting piece to the side bars 2. It is, of course, obvious that these connecting pieces are only employed to support the side bars 2 in an upright position and, in order to accomplish this result, the rods 14 are provided, and which are fastened to the rods in the manner shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. v v

Pieces 20 of any suitable material are held to the bars, one through the medium of the bolts 21 and serve as ends to the molds for the curbs. l

In assembling the various elements of this invention for operation, the side .bars 2 areV moved to their proper angleyby adjusting the brace rods 5. The screw 10 is adjusted in the apertures in the bars 2 and the nuts 13 are fitted to the threaded end of the screw.

The threaded rods 14 are passed through the eyes of the screws and nuts screwed on to the threaded portion of Said rods and which rods will serve to hold the bars 2 in properly adjusted positions. The curb plates 17 are then positioned intermediate the bars, said curb plates engaging the lugs 18 which project from the bars and serve to hold corresponding ends in Vposition to receive and form the curb.

What I claim to be new is A curb molding device comprising supports having lugs rejecting laterally therefrom, bars adjusta ly connected to said s upports, curb plates positioned intermediate said lugs and bars, adjustable braces piv- In testimony whereof I. hereunto affix my otally connecting said supports and bars, signature in presence of tWo Witnesses. screw eyes carried by said bars and rods RBERT HENRY VARNER. passing through said eyes and having Witnesses:

5 threaded'portions, nuts upon the ends ofthe M. E. VIsnLEY, rods. Y C. A. FISHER.

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